History is a tangled skein

[malignd at aol.com]

I don't know why you wrote this -- is it a quote I should know? -- but 
complexity does not precede evolution.

  History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, andbreak 
when one has unravelled enough; but complexity precedesevolution.


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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 9:34 pm
Subject: History is a tangled skein


  History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, andbreak 
when one has unravelled enough; but complexity precedesevolution.